'At the Master's Banquet'
THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA
Directed by JACK HARDY
W. B. MACMILLAN (tenor)
Compered by RICHARD NORTH
Arranged by ARTHUR SPENCER

An Anatomy of Jazz
The Brass Talks
In the early jazz band brass instruments were generally played in a style of frank burlesque. Trumpet and trombones were made to howl and squawk and bray; brass players tended to pride themselves particularly on the faithfulness of their jungle imitations. Reaction to the Dixieland technique was contemporaneous with the advent of larger orchestras. The ' section ' made its first appearance in jazz just as the trumpet and trombone were temporarily under a cloud, so that for some years the saxophone section, with its capacity for purring sweetness, maintained priority. But presently when the reaction had vanished in its turn, it was realised that the prime quality in all jazz playing must be ' attack '. Trumpet and trombone, now duplicated or triplicated into ' sections ', returned to favour. Certainly in the present day orchestra no section exceeds the brass in importance for reasons which may be clearer when you have heard Henry Reed and his orchestra this evening.